[RESOLVED] Detecting comas or whitespace

[Talguy]

So i am trying to allow my users to submit photos and attach tags to the pictures also. What I want to do is be able to detect if their is more whitespace between tags then there are comas and vice versa. If there are more white space explode the string with whitespace else explode the string with comas.

[Piranha]

You can use substr_count() to check it. http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_substr_count.asp

[bogu]

$your_str = 'bla, bla, bla ...';
$comma = ','; $white_space = ' ';
$nr_comma = substr_count($your_str,$comma);
$nr_white_space = substr_count($your_str,$white_space);
if ($nr_white_space>$nr_comma) {
    $tmp = explode($white_space,$your_str);
} else {
    $tmp = explode($comma,$your_str);
}

[Talguy]

O wow i like substr_count. After I posted I started to think of the stuff i done in c++ and made a for loop to search the string but i'm going to change it now to substr_count a lot less lines.